Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story -- Bono

<b>Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, <i>Surrender </i>is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.</b> <p/> <b>"<i>Surrender</i> soars whenever the spotlight comes on. Bono is never more powerful, on the page or the stage, than when he strives for the transcendence that only music can offer...[Bono] is open and honest, with language that can be witty and distinctive, addressing his competitive relationship with his father or growing up against the backdrop of Ireland's political violence." --<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>"When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. <i>Surrender</i> is the story of one pilgrim's lack of progress ... With a fair amount of fun along the way." --Bono <p/> As one of the music world's most iconic artists and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono's career has been written about ex